"One death is a tragedy: a million deaths is a statistic," said Joseph Stalin. Unfortunately, this tends to be the truth. Numbers are a useful tool for measuring things that are too big for us to understand in any other way, e.g., how far it is from earth to the sun. But using numbers often blunts the reality of human tragedies.The Yad Vashem site tries to make the victims of the Holocaust something more than just statistics. Its database is an attempt to preserve a memory of as many individual victims as possible.
Browse through the database, and look through some of the individual pages of testimony. What do you find interesting/memorable in these pages?
I found it very memorable that this site has many of the names and pictures of the victims that had to experience the Holocaust. I find it interesting learning about how terrible these people were treated just for being Jewish and how they were treated in concentration camps. I cant believe that so many people were put through this terrible time in history. This website really gets to the heart of what happened and how these people tried to survive.
ReplyDelete- Melayna Waisanen
Yad Vashem and his parents collected some names and biographical details of million victims during Shoah. Over four million people were killed at that period. Since 1954 Yad Vashem has worked to preserve the memories of millions of people who were murdered. The Database enables visitors to search for the names of many millions of victims of anti-Jewish persecution during the Shoah recorded to date. The database also provides educational material about the Holocaust feature additional historical, geographical, and biographical.
ReplyDeleteI found the database to be very interesting. The database offers a variety of information on the Holocaust. The most interesting part of the whole website is the continuous camera roll of all the individuals lost in the senseless violence of the Holocaust. Also, the website allows you to get to know the victims on a personal level and I really like that. It's pretty neat to have access to all that background information on each person. All together a great website.
ReplyDeleteTyler Spearman
This database is really unbelievable. However, looking at the records, I read about some the children's death like Neena aghi, Mara Coblic, Koblic Mark etc. All these were children under 10 and were murdered. They were innocent child, what have the killer got by killing these children? Nothing at all of course. This is really really sad and tragic(specially when you look at their smiling pictures). They had to leave the world because of Holocaust by Nazi regime and its collaborators. Thank to website for giving us the activities done by our past society .
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